Uplifting Quotes
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"If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow."
Quote by -Victor Hugo
"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."
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"Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind."
Quote by -Victor Hugo
"...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men."
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"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)"
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"What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do."
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"Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings."
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"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so."
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"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
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"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."
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"And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you."
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"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."
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"Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein."
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"What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another."
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"...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain."
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"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life."
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"A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off."
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"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."
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"A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking."
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"Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."
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"It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she."
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"Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing."
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"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England."
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